Kaikenlaista ... All sorts

Kevääseen kuuluu pienet kasvinalut, jotka työntyvät mullasta ylös.
The spring brings new small plants pushing up from the soil.



Kevääseen kuuluu sininen taivas ja pitkät valoisat illat.
The spring brings blue skies and long light evenings.



Kevääseen kuuluu ensimmäiset puiden siemenriipukkeet.
The spring brings the first seed strands on the trees.



Kevääseen kuuluu perhoset.
The spring brings the butterflies.



Kevääseen kuuluu myös vesisateet.
The spring also brings showers.



Kevääseen kuuluu puiden kukinnot.
The spring brings flowering trees.


Vaahtera / Maple


Kirsikka / Cherry

Kevääseen kuuluu myös ensimmäiset ukkoset.
The spring brings also the first thunder storms.



Ukkonen saattaa myös tuoda mukanaan rajun raekuuron.
Thunder can bring with it also a hefty hail storm.



Kevätkukat saavat kestää kaikenlaista.
Springflowers have to put up with all sorts.



Kevät tuo mukanaan paljon uutta ja ihmeellistä uteliaan koiran elämään.
Spring brings a lot of new and wonderus things to a curious dog's life.



Erilaiset äänetkin kiinnittävät valppaan koiran huomion.
Different sounds attract the attention of an alert dog.



Kevät tuo mukanaan kalamiesten jättämät, ah niin herkulliset, kalanperkuutkin.
Spring brings with it the, oh so delicious, fish heads and guts left by the fishing people.

Hyvää viikonloppua ... Happy weekend

Olen siis jälleen mökillä pari päivää. Samalla kiitän kauniisti ihanasta tunnustuksesta jonka sain jälleen Zilgalta. Zilga antoi sen ystävyyden merkiksi ja sekös erityisesti lämmittää mieltäni. Vähän aikaa pidän sitä ihan itselläni kunnes päätän kenelle sen annan edelleen. Isot halit sinulle Zilga.



Käykää Zilgan blogissa. Se on hieno.



I am again heading to the cottage for a couple of days. At the same time I want to thank Zilga for the wonderful award that she has given me as e token of friendship (as seen above). That in particular warms my heart very much. I shall keep it for a while until I have decided who I will forward it to. A big hug to you Zilga.

Visit Zilga's blog. It is wonderful.

Metsäretkellä ... Walking in the woods

Olen poissa kotoota tiistaihin asti mutta yritän vastailla palattuani.

I'm away from home until Tuesday but will try to respond at my arrival.
















Tämän vappunaamarin kera toivottelen Hauskaa Vappua!
With this First-of-May masque I'll bid you all Happy First of May!

Today's Flowers No 38 - Some new ones

This Sunday meme is hosted by Luis Santilli Jr, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Denise B. Castro
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I find wild growing mosses and other things in the forest as beautiful as those glorious products of man's creativity. The Heather in fact is carrying last year's flowers as they do flower in the autumn with pink flowers but still, the dead ones are pretty too.


I just love to follow the developments on those spring trees and shrubs this time of year even if everything in this collage is not just flowers.


These are all new arrivals for the week in nature except for the woodeanenemies. I had to incorporate them as I've seldom seen ones that pure blue and that thickly growing.


The gardener's joys. New ones are the Daffodil buds (I saw some that were partly open but liked this picture more), the Striped Squill (also called Puschkinia) and the Hyacinth

I shall not be home until Tuesday but will try to respond to you then at the latest. In the meanwhile thankyou for your interest.

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My World Tuesday - Flowers and Birds

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My World Tuesday is hosted by Klaus, Ivar, Sandy, Louise, Wren and Fishing Guy. A big thankyou to all of our wonderful hosts.

Spring is such glorious time. The best time to do birdwatching and then there are such wonderful amounts of bright springflowers in the parks and nature

Today's edition comes from a place called:


It is the fairly modern commercial center of the town Espoo (right next to Helsinki), where I live, but also offers a lot of nature and parks. It's not as such a new area but has undergone a lot of changes and new developments in the recent years. A recent introduction but from a different perspective to this same area was given by Chrome3 for MWT.


Here is an architectural view to start with. This is the hotel Tapiola Garden behind a pool of water. Two in fact. A big square one and this small round one in front.


Walking along we come to this bridge crossing a narrow channel


There I saw this bird that I've only seen in pictures before. It's called an Oyster Catcher.


In the park, where the grass would turn green if we had some rain, two Seagulls were kissing while a Magpie respectfully turned the other way


Continuing the walk I noticed how the new leaves were bursting out on trees and shrubs.


Also the Lark tree is making new soft needles


In the brook the Water Irises are already tall and soon they'll have their glorious yellow flowers


The Lupin leaves were already quite big too


Walking along the walkway amongst shady trees ...


... we come past the marina, where not too many boats were out in the water yet.


In places the white Woodanenemies were growing like a carpet on the woodland floor


In other more open spaces the Coltsfoot was specled on the ground like little suns


We come past a carpet of Bird-in-a-bush flowers (a natural variety)


This Magpie had found something under a bush ...


... while this Blackbird ...


... and this Field Fare were considering jumping into one to hide from the camera


Then we walk past a field of Striped Squill flowers ...


... and arrive to a field of blue Scilla flowers


At one point we walked passed some red Osier Dogwood shrubs. Only these were actually both red and green on the same branches. I've never seen that before. Only seen either red or green one coloured shrubs.


Finally we arrive at the seaside bay, which Tapiola is situated at.


There I saw a pair of Eurasian Wigeons


I also saw a pair of Tufted Ducks allthough the tufts aren't really visible in this photo.


There were lots of Barnacle Geese there ...


... and a Canada Goose as well


The pussywillows and many other trees and shrubs were already flowering ...


... while others had already gone to seed


Turning back we cross the bridge over the Ring I road (there are three ringroads around the Helsinki area) ...


... and walk past this water tower


In one place near the center of Tapiola a pipe with a bit of a differense was sticking up behing an apartment house


So we have taken our walk and have come back to the center part.

There's a lot to take in but this is just to give you an overall view of what I saw and experienced on this walk, which I would not have taken you on had I not left my car in for service a bit earlier and wanted to just kill some time before it would be ready to collect again.

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